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We combine modern software architecture in C++ with both efficient low-level computing backends and cutting edge algorithm implementations to solve large-scale Machine Learning problems (yet) on single machines.\n+The Shogun Machine learning toolbox offers a wide range of efficient and unified Machine Learning methods.\n \n-One of Shogun's most exciting features is that you can use the toolbox through a *unified* interface from C++, Python, Octave, R, Java, Lua, C#, Ruby, etc. This not just means that we are independent of trends in computing languages, but it also lets you use Shogun as a vehicle to expose your algorithm to multiple communities. We use [SWIG](http://www.swig.org/) to enable *bidirectional* communication between C++ and target languages. See our [examples](http://shogun.ml/cookbook/latest/) in all target languages. Shogun runs under Linux/Unix, MacOS, and Windows. \n \n-Originally focussing on large-scale kernel methods and bioinformatics (for a list of scientific papers mentioning Shogun, see [here](http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=shogun+toolbox&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C33&as_sdtp=)), the toolbox saw massive extensions to other fields in recent years. It now offers features that span the whole space of Machine Learning methods, including many classical methods in classification, regression, dimensionality reduction, clustering, but also more advanced algorithm classes such as metric, multi-task, structured output, and online learning, as well as feature hashing, ensemble methods, and optimization, just to name a few. Shogun in addition contains a number of exclusive state-of-the art algorithms such as a wealth of efficient SVM implementations, Multiple Kernel Learning, kernel hypothesis testing, Krylov methods, etc. All algorithms are supported by a collection of general purpose methods for evaluation, parameter tuning, preprocessing, serialisation & I/O, etc; the resulting combinatorial possibilities are huge. See our [showroom](http://shogun.ml/notebook/latest/).\n+#### Shogun is accessible\n \n-The wealth of ML open-source software allows us to offer bindings to other sophisticated libraries including: [LibSVM](http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/)/[LibLinear](http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/liblinear/), [SVMLight](http://svmlight.joachims.org/), [LibOCAS](http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~xfrancv/ocas/html/), [libqp](http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~xfrancv/libqp/html/), [VowpalWabbit](http://www.hunch.net/~vw/), [Tapkee](http://tapkee.lisitsyn.me/), [SLEP](http://www.public.asu.edu/~jye02/Software/SLEP/), [GPML](http://www.gaussianprocess.org/gpml/code/matlab/doc/) and more. See our [list of integrated external libraries](http://www.shogun-toolbox.org/page/about/contributions).\n+* *many languages* (Python, Octave, R, Java/Scala, Lua, C#, Ruby, etc) and *platforms* (Linux/Unix, MacOS and Windows), easy integration with other ML libraries\n \n-Shogun got initiated in 1999 by [Soeren Sonnenburg](http://sonnenburgs.de/soeren) and [Gunnar Raetsch](http://www.raetschlab.org/) (that's where the name ShoGun originates from). It is now developed by a much larger Team cf. [website](http://shogun-toolbox.org/page/about/ourteam) and [AUTHORS](http://www.github.com/shogun-toolbox/shogun/wiki/AUTHORS), and would not have been possible without the patches and bug reports by various people. Statistics on Shogun's development activity can be found on [ohloh](https://www.openhub.net/p/shogun).\n+#### Shogun is state-of-the-art\n+\n+* *efficient and competitive* implementation (from standard to cutting edge algorithms), modern software architecture in C++\n+* easy combination of *multiple data representations, algorithm classes and general purpose tools* for rapid prototyping of data pipelines\n+\n+### Shogun is open source\n+\n+* *free* and *community-based* [ML training and skills](#useshoguntolearn) not just for students\n+\n+You can try Shogun in our [cloud](https://cloud.shogun.ml/hub/home) (no installation required) or find out more about our [mission](#mission), [features](#features) and [history](#shogunhistory).\n+\n+\n+\n+\n+\n+\n+## <a name=\"mission\"></a> Mission\n+\n+Machine learning is powerful. Within the last two decades, machine learning has emerged from an eccentric academic field to transforming the way we live our everyday life. 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